Show O I by SIMPLIFYING Sll THE TAX TAY TA BLOW The senate finance committee re recently recently recently voted for tor tie tre t e S Chart system for helping the tre public deter determine determine mme mine Its Income tax It now seems certain that the Do It Without The The- The Spell DIzzy Spell Dizzy idea will become law and that the new arrivals within the in income income income come tax classifications will also ain ost be admitted on a Pay As You Enter system e Secretary says that WIth the rank rack and file of taxpayers it am t the money it s the con confusion confusion confusion fusion He contends that a man In Inthe Inthe inthe the lower brackets should be able to togo togo togo go to a s post office glance at a chart chartand chartand chartand and find out what he owes Uncle Sam without going nuts When the income tax was limited to the Upper Brackets and only took on m a small proportion of the people Jt at was all right to let them suffer There seemed no reason why they t be given the works up to and including the headache the spots before the eyes the night night- sweats night sweats the nervous breakdowns and the mad call for tor lawyers But the Every Man An Einstein policy polley is to be dropped now that the Income tax laws have been eased so that anybody can get in on Uncle Sam knows that if the rank and file of ot his nt sit zens zees were ever asked to go through all that trouble making out an income tax blank black there would be what W Willie Wilhe Howard calls a re Molt olt Either Esther that or more mental collapses than our In ons could handle Hence the Not A Headache In InA InA InA A Carload type of tax collection It is all rIght as far as It goes I but it doesn t go far tar enough We think the tax blank should be made prettier And carry a page of ot fun men ruel We submit the following extra sug sugg g st ons for making tax paying more 1 I Make the tax blanks prettier nd include a page of funnies t B poi 2 Preface each blank with the words Don t Bother Reading This See Your Postmaster 3 postage for tor return 4 Have the mailman leave each blank black with an apology and explain that it s just too bad 5 Forb d lengthy discussion of the tax blank m on the home Let the husband say I guess I U ll run down downto downto downto to the post office and have my in income income income come tax apprehensions attended to and let the w Ie fe 1 mit her corn com comment mint ment to Okay I hope it Ii s noth ng serious senous 6 Have the post office chart printed m in colors and throw m on a couple of movie shorts in the cor corridor 7 Require the postmasters to serve hot coffee and sandwiches e Do You Yon Remember Remember- Away back when the ultimatum came first and the attack seconds second Japan is proceeding with the re reconstruct reconstruct reconstruct construct on of the Chinese continent wIth the full operation co-operation of China Churchill s charge that Japan is en encroaching upon the Chinese people Is wholly groundless Japanese spokesman And then again agam the world doesn t seem to understand that those al alleged alleged alleged bombs are really flower pots PORTRAIT OF A MAYOR Into an aIrplane aIrplane- airplane Out ot of it qUick I Into another With shovel and pick OH Olt to a concert Then to Then zip to a spot To christen a hangar A park or all hot hott Whisk To some city To dig a big hole Run a Or help to mme mine coal coall This way and that way WIth gusto and Joy Joy- joy Flash Florello Fiorello The Dynamo Boy Boyl S Hank Greenberg Made Cor Corporal Corporal Corporal Headline The Hanks Hacks are art coming A man named Low L w has been named an official of the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York gas shortage crisis Elmer Twitchell just couldn t re reSist resist resist the temptation He walked up to an auto bearing an I Don t Waste Gas sticker and scribbled onIt onit on onit it Wanna Manna bet bets Ima Iona Dodo says she the isn ism t wormed about America being drawn onto into the war for tor the next month or so It couldn t go in she explains until un tn til after the world series |